"Sometimes it's impossible after the international break - different plans, different positions, they played all over the world, I don't like this but we cannot change it - but you saw City struggled also a little bit," he added.

"We had then these clear moments and then it's one goal conceded, forget it, it can happen, but the red card gave them the advantage.

Sadio Mane was sent off for a tough challenge on Ederson (Image: AFP)

"Everybody knows it's a bad place to be one man down and we could see this so we tried to drop a little bit deeper, but it makes completely no sense.

"We have a lot of things to learn from today, but the problem is today we cannot change it, we can only learn from it and make the next time better."